space is not something I need. Unless it's a space in which to singwhere the acoustics hear my low notes aswell as my highs where I can close my eyes and just wail like the siren I cry for.

You told me you didn't want to be alonebut You lied. You told me you would heal what was brokenbut instead you turned my stress fractures into splintered bone.and my sinews rotted from your sugar sweet portrayal of "woman"

So now I'm bones: all crazyglued togetherlike slipshod Lincoln logsin the daycare room-- it's naptime and all the toys remain scattered across the floor in landmine formation.

You mistook me for someone who could let go. You mistook me for someone you wanted to know. not someone you were willing to love.

But your idea of love is sacrifice--that which I could make for you. You were the prize and I was the winner--that's not respect it's trickery, where you're the bribe and the blackmail.

But you were never willing to give, I had to beg and when I did you told me to walk away.

where is that crutch you promised me?in that song you sang so sweetly--lured me to your shoreonly to employ my admiration for a momentthen push me through your mother's door.

Like the day I realized I wanted to say"I love you"I hesitated. must forgotten that the way I love is equal and open. it's not to be left unspoken.

I would give you eight thousand second chances.and still not deny you. I would give you everything you didn't even ask for--and still feel selfishbecause your love is all I need. But I shouldn't have had to ask for you to love me.

I shouldn't have had to ask you to want me, dear. If ONCE you had told me you cared--I wouldn't have needed to hold you so near.

I don't need space. But I would have given it to you--if you had learned how to share.

so go ahead--stand up tallan emotionless pillar of carbon and salt. And sing out those songs to sailors in the water--but remember when they comeand crash upon your shore